Our 1st Reunion!

Well, our long anticipated reunion has happened! Not as picturesque as you might have imagined, but it was wonderful! We couldn't sleep last night (changing 8 times zones is really rough on your body!), and our boy has a cold...runny nose, cough...so we were all a little "off." BUT, it was as awesome as you might think to hold our son again! And, since he isn't feeling well, he isn't as into running straight to the steps, rather, he has wanted to just sit next to us on the couch, or in our laps, and just play with some toys in our laps...we are loving the cuddle time!
When we got to the orphanage, we had all the bags of gifts for the caretakers, so we were escorted into the head Dr's office to leave them there (she wasn't there), and then head up to our 3rd floor hallway meeting area. As we were on our way back out of her office, our boy was already being walked up the steps ahead of us to meet us! So, our first sight of each other was through the bars on the stairs. He looked down at us, and we looked up at him, and it was almost as if he was thinking...."I know these people...but give me a minute to put this all together..." He kind of just stared for a second. Then, the lady turned his attention, again, to walking up the steps. We were walking up at this point behind him, and were able to resume our reunion once we got to the 3rd floor...how sweet it is to be here with our precious boy!!!

Landon obviously remembers us- he started unloading and loading the bag full of toys, clothes, and shoes we brought with us for our time together. He loves doing that...over and OVER! We brought the tape measure to measure his feet...5 inches long, by the way, Nana! And he immediately picked up the tape measure, and put it to Greg's forehead and smiled! SO smart!! He still loves trying to pick up things that are too heavy for him- he loved my purse today- he was trying to carry it up and down the hallway, but he was swaying the whole time b/c it was so heavy on his shoulder!

One of the things we did today was try on some shoes...Aunt Lori, the size 7 I think fits pretty good! In fact, he didn't want us to take them off, so he is still wearing them now! (well, we will see when we get back). They look much better than the green striped socks with the shiny blue pleathery sandals he was wearing when we got there! We also wanted to check out his size in clothes, so we brought his new Jackson 10 jersey...woot, woot! And, he fits that perfectly! We left that on him for a while to get some pictures, and then took it off so we could bring it back home with us. The pants he had on were 18 months, and while they were okay on his waist, they were floods! I think 24 months OR 2T will be just fine! I didn't want to make him have to change...so we just held up the pants to him...I think we are good to go!

And, I'm so glad we brought 2 different size diapers to hold up to one of his caretakers- size 3 and 4. And, she pointed to size 4! Now we know! :)  We won't have our translator until Wednesday, so body language it is in the orphanage, lol!

Okay- off to go see our lil' man again! Love to all!